I won’t bore you with paragraphs of what ails NASCAR but suffice it to say that when the marketing tail began wagging the racing dog it all went downhill very quickly.
Fake debris cautions, barn-door aerodynamics on the COT, rock-hard Goodyear tires that cause virtually no decrease in lap times during a fuel run, the Chase, way too many cookie-cutter mile-and-a-half tracks...there’s a lot of things that are screwing up the actual racing in Sprint Cup. The economy is wrecking the sponsorship dollars, and the high ticket price (and gouging of hotel/food/gas prices on race weekends) are driving away the fans that can still stand the racing.
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